Irvine Welsh

Marabou Stork Nightmares

A rape victim's violent revenge fantasy transforms into a journey through illness and delusion

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Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh

Scottish novelist whose Trainspotting, a portrait of Edinburgh heroin culture, became a defining novel of the 1990s. His visceral, vernacular fiction continues to provoke and dazzle. He is one of the most culturally influential British novelists of his generation.

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